The electronic industry’s efforts to improve manufacturing quality
and production output owe much of their success to MES manufacturers.
Whereas the focus in the past was on pure traceability, additional
measures are necessary today to satisfy the highest quality requirements
and deliver maximum benefit to customers. The iTAC.MES.Suite is a high
performance 24/7 MES solution that is tailored to the electronic
industry's requirements, supporting zero PPM production objectives. iTAC
will be demonstrating the iTAC.MES.Suite at IPC APEX Expo in San Diego
(Hall B2, Booth #1947) from February 19 to 21.

In the past, traceability simply involved the storage of production
relevant data to enable the precise identification of defective products
in recall campaigns. Today, a modern MES has to satisfy a far more
complex range of traceability requirements. Real-time production
monitoring and control is facilitated on the basis of traceability data
and, thanks to active traceability (process interlocking), it’s
practically impossible to manufacture defective products. Optimum
planning, control and process efficiency have to be guaranteed along the
entire supply chain, so cloud capability with 24/7 availability is
absolutely essential to cross-plant M2M communication.

From supply chain traceability to standards compliance

It’s practical to opt for an MES software that unites all these
functions yet can also be adapted to the specific requirements of
companies such as Audi, Autoliv, Hella, HBPO, Johnson Controls, Lear
Corporation, Magna, Schneider Electric, Siemens, VW and the like. iTAC’s
MES provides these customers with standards compliance, accessibility,
excellent performance, active traceability and numerous other functions
such as supply chain traceability, roll-out capability and high
availability that set it apart from other solutions in the MES market.
While clearly capable of meeting the needs of a single plant, it is
designed to enable the efficient and reliable implementation of global
infrastructure projects.

Many other MES providers can deliver systems that bridge the gap between
production machines, ERP systems and quality systems. "However, the
majority of them are traditional, location-based MES solutions. Many
manufacturing execution systems were designed for local use at one
single production facility, so they have no high availability middleware
to support functional evolution, for example, in order to meet Industry
4.0 requirements," explained Peter Bollinger, COO of iTAC Software AG.

Modern machine interfaces can only be built and operated on the basis of
a standardized and efficient middleware like iTAC.ARTES. Outdated
machine interfaces, on the other hand, are maintenance-intensive and
negatively influence operating speed. An MES without efficient
middleware has a negative impact on productivity, leading to reduced
output and quality problems. "Several MES manufacturers still have some
catching up to do in these areas. We have to keep pace with the times
and cater to global supply chain requirements and the resulting
cloud-based MES trend."

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